~ / cmdr2

projects: freebird, easy diffusion

hacks: carbon editor, torchruntime, findstarlink

  • #cities
  • #findstarlink

Released cities-db, a database of ~32,000 cities (cities in the world with population > 15,000), compressed into a format suitable for auto-complete on web pages (~283 KB) or mobile apps. The data is fetched from GeoNames.org, and processed into a custom format. Why? This library was created for findstarlink.com. It would be pretty expensive to use the Google Maps API for auto-complete, or host a dedicated API endpoint. And I don’t see why we need a remote service for this.